1919, Ukraine. It's the last moments of independence, and fear of the future and despair in the air are mixed with the will to live. A self-proclaimed detective comes to the club, asking about the girl from the photo whom no one remembers. A singer who dreams of writing her own songs finds strange poems of unknown authorship. Together, they try to unravel a tangle of riddles and mysterious disappearances but stumble upon something that the human mind is unable to fathom.